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* "Haskellers just write tutorials but there's no good practical code."
* "Haskell will never catch on because it's too hard. They think it's easy but that's just because they're geniuses."
* "Haskellers are obnoxious and condescending. The language is easy but they want to pretend it makes them special and clever."
* "The Haskell type checker only checks really simple properties that are easy to prove by hand"
* "Haskell doesn't come with tooling that automate refactorings that are easy to make by hand"
The list of contradictory complaints goes on ...
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* "Haskellers just write tutorials but there's no good practical code."
* "Haskell will never catch on because it's too hard. They think it's easy but that's just because they're geniuses."
* "Haskellers are obnoxious and condescending. The language is easy but they want to pretend it makes them special and clever."
* "The Haskell type checker only checks really simple properties that are easy to prove by hand"
* "Haskell doesn't come with tooling that automate refactorings that are easy to make by hand"
The list of contradictory complaints goes on ...